October 5–17, 1904 · Manchuria Theater
October 5–17, 1904
Seeking to recover the initiative, Kuropatkin launched a major offensive south of Mukden along the Sha-Ho River. Initial Russian advances pushed the Japanese back and briefly threatened to cut their supply lines. But coordination failures between Russian corps commanders allowed Oyama to stabilize the front and then counterattack. Both sides exhausted themselves in brutal fighting across broken terrain. The battle ended in mutual exhaustion, with neither side able to deliver a decisive blow, but the Russians had briefly held the offensive.
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